Re: I Am The Dumba**; Koo-Koo-Ka-Choo...

[skerocdriver@juno.com (Shawn C Meze)]

On Mon, 17 Nov 1997 21:01:15 -0500 "Jeff Wheeler"
<j_dubbya@email.msn.com> writes:

>"Tap them, 'cause they break off easy,"he tells me.  "Since I started
>tapping them, I haven't lost a bolt," he says.  Did I tap them? Noooo.
>
>a little tougher, so I put a little muscle behind it, and puhh, off came
the
>bolt head.  I went ahead and sheared off two more; I don't know why.
>Sometimes I'm such an a**hole.


Nah! Sometimes even tho were forewarned and everything like that, we
still need to stick our finger in the 110V socket and find out for
ourselves why we don't do it! Its just human nature. You've got to live
it before you can really learn it. don't be so hard on yourself or I
would of had to commit "Harry-Carry" long ago!! 


>So, I'm thinking that that complete pump assembly Mark offered me such a
>good price on a while back is looking pretty cherry right about now.  


Say, you didn't say whether or not you got the rest of the bolts off or
not? Sometimes bolts will break off at the head and leave enough of a
stud to get a set of vice grips on and get them out that way. Go to your
local parts/hardware store (I noticed Pep Boys has a huge selection of
nuts and bolts and other weird crap that will come in handy for me one
day! Even tho I hate pep boys! )and pick up a few metric bolts that match
the old ones that you didn't snap and your in business!


>nooooo, now the car's on jackstands and the wife's tired of sharing a
car
>and I'm going to have to pay something awful for one locally, or worse
yet,
>try to find replacement bolts while trying to learn how to use a
tap-and-die
>set(isn't that what you get sheared-off bolts out with?).

These bolts are so small you will probably have to drill out the bolt
studs and retap it. I have an "easy out" that will fit that small. You
could try that first. Its damn hard to drill a small hole in the stud to
get an easy out into but its worth a shot. (Depending on your skill
level.)
As far as the wife, I told my now X-wife that if she could fix it better,
faster AND cheaper then she can go right ahead. Until then, we share the
car. End of story there. I think that's about when I booted her out after
that. She said something like she didn't like my Scirocco. Buh-byu!! My
lawyer will call your lawyer. Take your DATSUN with you!  :)


>I think I'll see if I can find that .wav file I had of that fat kid on
the
>Simpsons saying "HAH-hah!"  and play it at myself a couople hundred 
>times.


OH! I got a better one! Its I think Kyle from the South Park cartoon. (I
got it from the web site) He's saying:

 "Dude, this is pretty F****d up right here"!

 I hear this about 50 times a day as I press buttons that are the wrong
buttons in windows. Anyways, its cool. Dan and I were just talking about
this today and I thought id share!

Later!
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